Super Busy day today! Starts out with a quick early morning gym session to try and work off the night before’s bad decisions. I’ll be honest it wasn’t much of a session hahahah.

After getting back the room for a quick shower, David and I went over to Chipotle for something to eat... unreal, I’ll be eating these when I’m in California.

So our plan today was to walk down the strip and go into some iconic casinos/hotels. We walked around caesars palace, flamingo, the Linq, the Venetian. We also went ‘off the strip’ which was full of bars and restaurants.

We then took an Uber Up to the stratosphere hotel as I had bought us tickets to go to the top of the tower and go on the rides at the top of it. The views at the top where incredible, unfortunately it was a bit cloudy but you can really see the fact you’re in the middle of a desert when you’re up there!

We had a choice of 2 of the 3 rides up there so we watched all 3 first before deciding... I picked big shot and David picked x-scream. Big shot is just like the old PlayStation ride in Blackpool... but it’s already 921 feet in the air. At the top of the ride it’s something like 1081 feet. It’s so high! The x-scream is a ride that shoots you off over the edge of the building so you’re just hanging there. I was shitting myself on it but it was awesome. Would highly recommend it. The casino it’s self is also not bad up there, not as good as aria and PH but it’s cool. We then headed to Fremont Street to experience the old Vegas and it is completely different. It’s dirty, cheap but it’s awesome. It’s friendly but you also need to watch your wallet.

We go back to the Bellagio, get changed and head off to bubba gump for some tea then we head off to PH to play some craps and poker. We end up being around 50 up each which is cool and we also get a few free drinks so we can’t complain. We then head off to tilted kilt for a beer and tried a few more bars but everywhere was really quiet, so we head back to the Bellagio gamble a bit more lose $100 and go to bed as we both leave in the morning.Read more

Had a laugh today! Spent all day with trudi and Kelly and they where both hammered hahahahaha. I didn’t drink as I knew if I did then the following day would be a write off.

I met them in aria as they where in the buffet and they had bottomless drinks for 2 hours... so they where already drunk when I got there. We ended up going down to the Las Vegas sign and then working our way through the Luxor casino, Excalibur and New York New York before they got too drunk and we went back the hotel. I end up leaving to go get some food and meet up with David as he’d been in a tournament all day. We decide to go out for a few drinks and see what’s out and about, have a bit of a gamble, and just soak in Vegas!

So I finally arrived in Sin City! Flew in from Houston airport and arrived at Vegas airport which is like nothing I’ve seen. Slot machines everywhere!

Anyway I go get my bag and I get to the Bellagio as quick as possible. Looking up and around on my way into the city, what struck me is that in the day it’s not what I imagined. It’s kinda normal.

I arrive at the Bellagio a bit overawed at the size of it. I give my bag to the bell desk and make my way inside. Unforgettable moment. Huge lobby area with statues and art everywhere. I walk through the casino and see all the money on the tables, the cheering, the gasps, the sound of the bell when someone wins on the machine. It’s infectious. I walk through the mall in the Bellagio which is cool, shops are out my price range though.

Well the first day of vegas was filled with good and bad luck. Almost missed our flight from Vancouver to Vegas, but we made it! Almost lost my luggage at the airport, but it was sent on the next flight so we found it! Almost lost my phone at the casino, but thankfully someone returned it and we found that too!
Despite all the hiccups it was an amazing day. Cameron finally got to try White Castle. For supper we had tacos, Mexican street corn, and probably the best chicken wings and fries we've ever had. Then we saw a hilarious magic show by Piff the Magic Dragon.
To top it all off, the highlight of the night was... Cameron popped the question, and... WE'RE ENGAGED! 🥂Read more

We are sore after day 3! It took over 26000 steps but we walked all the way down to Mandalay bay, to see the shark reef, and stopped to look at lots of the casinos on the way. After that we made it down to the vegas sign to take a picture, very cool but not as big as we thought! While we were walking past the Cosmopolitan Cameron had this feeling we just had to go in and check it out. And hes sure glad we did because all of his favourite maple leafs players were playing black jack in the casino. We didnt want to bug them in the middle of a game but he managed to get a picture with John Tavarez because he showed up later and was just watching.
The show we saw was Absinthe, very hilariously, inappropriate in every way! Then we went for a late supper at Guy's burger restaurant, again amazing food!
That pretty well wraps up a pretty great day!Read more